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Navy to Test 32 megajoule railgun in coming weeks.
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http://www.digitaltrends.com/international/u-s-navy-to-test-32-megajoule-em-railgun-in-the-coming-weeks/
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The United States Navy will receive the industries first 32 megajoule EM Railgun prototype and begin testing in the coming weeks.
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) announced today that they will begin testing an advanced Electromagnetic Railgun (EMR) within the next few weeks. The development and testing of this advanced EMR is the result of a $21 million contract awarded to BAE Systems by the Office of Naval Research roughly two years ago. For those that may not know, the ONR is the office within the United States Department of the Navy that facilitates all science and technology programs for the U.S Navy and Marine Corps through various institutions, such as universities and government laboratories.
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Date Posted:
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New and fun ways to kill people!
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Aerlinthian posted:
New and fun ways to kill people!
Yay 
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Koneg
Title: Evil Genius
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SOON
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Rikarus
Title: Ultimate Badass
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that is awesome, they been working their way slowly towards 40 Mj, I wonder what the techis like to keep the rails from jsut welding to crap after one shot.
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Urk_VN
Title: Orderly Randomizer
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Registered: 2002-10-30 17:31:32
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Too bad we don't have a space navy. Just give them a couple of telephone-sized metal rods and drop em down where you want stuff destroyed. No need for nukes if you can make it go fast enough.
Physics ftw either way though. 
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I'd imagine most electrical weaponry is being developed with the idea of it being used in space eventually.
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Eradiani
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Koneg posted:
SOON
that was lasers.. so more like soon:
personnel sized baby!
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Seems like a powerful enough railgun could be effective at catapulting payloads into some kind of orbit, eh?
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Abaddon_Ambrosius
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Registered: 2001-12-21 09:51:39
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Eager_Igraine posted:
Seems like a powerful enough railgun could be effective at catapulting payloads into some kind of orbit, eh?
Hey! We don't need no more o' that thar hippie peacenick talk up in here!
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